Academics

Meg Kirkpatrick, psychology

Posted on December 4, 2011

Kirkpatrick’s research focuses on the role of hormones (particularly estrogen, progesterone and testosterone) in behavior. Recently, she has examined environmental endocrine disrupters such as BPA, looking specifically at how BPA affects hormone receptors in the brain and reproductive function of animals.

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